Eric S. Raymond Quotes

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Modern civilization depends on science …

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sciences evolve.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry.

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

The revolution is here. It's established that Netflix is a place where you can get premium content. It's a whole new world. It's very interesting. We'll be discovering it together. It's going to be interesting because they don't have a lot to compare it to.

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.